10 *actually* fun & easy classics to read | recs from a Japanese English lit student 📚

10 actually fun & easy classics to read | recs from a Japanese English lit student 📚

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I just finished writing my thesis for my English lit degree, so here's a list of 10 classic literature that's beginner friendly and actually fun to read! Since I'm not exactly a native English speaker, I'll mention when the English is difficult, and for those books I'd recommend that you would find
hope you enjoy!
Thank you so much for watching this video!❤️
I hope you have a beautiful holiday season!:)
✨books mentioned✨
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Orient Express & And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984 - George Orwell
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Little Women - L. M. Alcott
Pygmalion - Barnard Shaw
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@loafof_sof 2 жыл бұрын

CONGRATS ON FINISHING YOUR THESIS, THAT’S AWESOME

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

Thank youuuuu😭🙏🏼

@aabill1950 Жыл бұрын

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde read this the summer before senior year in high school. very well written, parts of it were spooky, in full daylight, ridiing in car with my parents. so glad I didn't see the movie first. Highly recommended I'm writing as an American, English native language. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Haven't read any of her books but want to. The parts I have read were very good. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë this was a joy to read. highly recommended. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë I only stayed with this book out of respect for the Bronte sisters. only one sane person in the whole book and that was the narrator. glad I didn't read this in school. so many characters who I would not like to meet, ever. I will watch the old movie some time to find out what happened. bad people. if you've read a few chapters and want to quit, quitting is recommended.

@marysiafudala 2 жыл бұрын

I love your videos about books!! 🦋

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

So glad to hear that!🤍

@ivanabosic6893 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Emi, first of all congrats on your thesis! And this video is great! I'm so struck by the fact that ALL the books are not only my favourites but I also read them at the same age when you read them! All Agatha Christie plots mixed-up, The Catcher in the Rye, Wilde!! And the Great Gatsby (+the film starring Robert Redford an Mia Farrow), Little Women, and all the rest of true clasissics! And it was all in the 1980s when I first read them... I am amazed that so many years later, in a different part of the world, there is the same reaction to the same set of books! I'm looking forward to more videos, do keep up the good work! And all the best in the New Year!

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

Woooow I love that!! Just goes to prove how timeless and borderless they are:) (I’ve also watched that version of Gatsby btw, loved it.) Thanks for watching my videos!🥺🤍 Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!:)

@dpier6 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Congrats on finishing your thesis 🎉

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

thanks so much!! 🤍

@mohamadmerhi9277 2 жыл бұрын

So not only am I early to your video but also it literally came at the right moment as I was searching for classics.

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

Omg so happy to hear that!:)

@joreneereads 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this video! Congrats on your thesis!

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!!!🤍🤍

@user-gg5ny3it1j 2 жыл бұрын

Love your content!

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much!:)

@bsieufkek 2 жыл бұрын

Love your vids emi!! ❤

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

Thank youuu🤍

@anna7276 2 жыл бұрын

Oh Emi, not only are your Spanish videos fun to watch, but you read all the books i love too!!!! Have you ever read Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterbridge”. ? That’s one of my all time fave eng lit novels! Merry Christmas to you and a happy new year! X

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad you enjoy these videos as well! I’ve never read that before! I need to check it out if it’s you’re all time favorite:) Merry Christmas to you as well!🤍

@boxingcompass 2 жыл бұрын

Agatha Christie!!! I had the same phase - I read a ton of her books in 6th and 7th grade, and now can only remember bits and pieces of them. Congrats on finishing your thesis!

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

Hahahahhaa love that. Thanks so much!!

@user-hy9om9lo9u 2 жыл бұрын

this is such a great video :) I am curious to hear about how you became interested in English lit and what brought you to major in it?

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

I read a lot of classic English/American books translated into Japanese when I was little, like Little Women and Pride and Prejudice, etc. because my mom would give them to me, and I grew up loving them:) and also, I had 'advanced' English classes in high school where we studied books like To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies, and I loved those classes so much that I made it my major :)

@user-hy9om9lo9u 2 жыл бұрын

@@emigrace That's so interesting to hear! Thanks for sharing Emi :))

@worldobserver3515 2 жыл бұрын

Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Old Man and the Sea, The Grapes of Wrath, and more recently, All the Pretty Horses......these are also great books. Congratulations on finishing your paper. What will you do now? What job will you be able to get with your degree? Will you continue your education and become a college professor?

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

All great books as well:) thanks so much! Hahaha no I don’t plan on becoming a professor:)

@hydeyoungg17 2 жыл бұрын

Hello. The classic books of Russian authors are also very beautiful. I think Dostoyevski and Tolstoy are number one.I remember reading a book by Agatha Christie until I finished it. I was very excited. Thank you for this beautiful video and for the books you recommend. See you.

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve never really read Russian classics since they always intimidated me, but I really should try! haha Thanks for the sweet comment!🤍

@amjoshuaf Жыл бұрын

@@emigraceDostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment is not daunting at all. Plus it seems to me sort of the mother of all detective/mystery novels so if you’re into Agatha Christie you may like it.

@cristina-ff8bj 2 жыл бұрын

do you have a goodreads? would love to see more book recs!!

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t always use it, but I do have an account!:) www.goodreads.com/user/show/121524379

@TheSeBbastien 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your videos. I recommend you a French/Belgian writer : Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. His book "Oscar et la dame rose" could make you cry. It's a very popular book in France

@pinkman17_ 2 жыл бұрын

5:10

@eliranmagen7008 2 жыл бұрын

great video :) I'd also recommand "To Kill a Mockingbird" - it's about racism in the united states of the old days, can be kinda harsh but a great story and also "They Were All My Sons" - well, this one is actually a script for a play and not a book so it's written kind of differently but it's also touching some important topics

@blove9623 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Girl ❤️

@yurishevchenko5177 2 жыл бұрын

Hola, ¿Cómo va todo? I highly recommend you the best Russian novel 巨匠とマルガリータ by ブルガーコフ(no sé si has leído antes esta obra maestra). La leí en ruso hace tres años más o menos y en este momento la releo en español(El maestro y Margarita). La trama de ella es muy absorbente e intrincado. A mi parecer, aunque ese libro sí que no es fácil de leer, definitivamente vale la pena leerlo.Te prometo que te gustará) y ¡Enhorabuena por terminar la tesis! Me gustan todas tus recomendaciones en este video. Abrazos desde el lejano Moscú!😌

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

Ay gracias siempre por tus comentarios:) Nunca he leído ese libro, pero si debería leer algunos libros clásicos de Rusia algún día! Graciasss!

@yurishevchenko5177 2 жыл бұрын

@@emigrace どういたしまして素敵なクリスマスを ☃️☃️🎄🎄 ところで、5000人登録達成おめでとうございます🎊🥳 いつも楽しい動画を本当にありがとう! これからも一緒に頑張ろう!😎

@emigrace 2 жыл бұрын

@@yurishevchenko5177 わーいありがとうございます！！！🤍🤍